Chapter 19: The Dream of the Ancient City
"The stall owner you meet may not be a human being. After the guard rank told Zang Chenghong what he had seen and heard, he pondered for a while, "Either it is a cultivator who has advanced seniors to cast spells, or it has something to do with this disappearing Ziyang Ancient City." But listening to his words, the latter is more likely. He frowned and thought for a while, "Our main task is to find the missing Lou Xiaolang, and the rest is not important." It's just that if there is any existence in this Ziyang Ancient City, there is a lot of resentment against the monks, and it is indeed not conducive to the task. β
Du Lan really admitted that Zang Chenghong was right, but she still couldn't help but think of the stall owner's painful and resentful eyes, "Those immortals only care about their own happiness, who cares about ordinary people's life and death? Call them immortals, who of them are really worthy!"
Ten zhang soft red, everyone is just a mortal.
If you ignore the blazing sun overhead, a trip to the desert can be called a pleasant one. The bright yellow sand is silently lurking, shining under the scorching sun, and the endless sea of sand is full of solemnity.
"I used to hear people say that the Huangsha Ancient Road, the boundless sand sea, and I still felt that my heart longed for it, but when I arrived in the desert, I realized that there was only the Huangsha Ancient Road and the boundless sand sea!" Qi Yiyan wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained angrily.
"Senior sister is so right!" Du Lanzhen burst out laughing.
"I take back my previous words now, those senior sisters are by no means idle when they go out to prepare flower umbrellas! Sure enough, it's still useful!" Wei Rank said weakly.
"How can the sun here be so poisonous?" Qi Yiyan raised his head and muttered. "When will it arrive?" she turned her head to look at Zang Chenghong.
"In front. Zang Chenghong held a compass in his hand, and replied, "If you go again, you should be there." β
"Is there really nothing wrong?" Qi Yiyan couldn't help but ask, "Is this method accurate?"
"Given by the family teacher, how can it not be allowed?" The compass in Zang Chenghong's hand is a high-grade product given by Bai Yunlu Yuanjun, which is enough to use to the Jindan realm, these four people are doing tasks, not to earn resources to cultivate, but to spend a lot of spirit stones, just to see and experience, if it is just an ordinary monk, they have to look for it like a headless fly.
Chalou Xiaolang left a drop of essence blood and led it with a compass, and the four of them were going to find someone easily, but who knew that they used the compass, and they still wandered around in the desert for several days, and they were suspicious of the compass for a while.
"I'm afraid there is something strange about this Ziyang Ancient City. Zang Chenghong understood Qi Yiyan's doubts, but apart from believing in the compass, he couldn't think of any other way for a while.
Although they are all from the same family, Du Lanzhen and these people are not very familiar, Qi Yiyan can question Zang Chenghong, and if Du Lanzhen wants to deal with Zang Chenghong, it is not easy to question it, the relationship is always dealt with, and it takes time to accumulate.
The four of them couldn't, so they could only continue to wander around the vast Gobi, and thanks to their rich family wealth, they could maintain a state of full spiritual energy for a long time, and they patrolled for a few more days.
On this day, the western sky suddenly changed color, and before the four of them could react, the yellow sand roared, overwhelming, and the Gobi seemed to have really become an undulating sea, and a wave was ushered in, Du Lan really felt a strong force hitting her head-on, and slapped her with a spirit talisman on the sand, and the crane under her body was transformed into a crane cushion under her, and the thin skeleton diaphragm made her feel painful, and her back was covered with a layer of yellow sand, which made her breathless.
Almost instantly, Du Lanzhen withdrew her aura, and the Hantan Crane Shadow Talisman turned into a thin spirit rune, lying quietly in her ring. As soon as she was lucky, the yellow sand behind her exploded, and her body was light, and before she could get up, there was yellow sand falling, and Duran really had time to change to a more convenient posture. She used her aura again, and stood up while she was empty, and before she had time to rejoice, she felt a huge force in her body that made her sway upwards and fly into the sky, like a kite with a broken string, rising and falling with the wind.
Duran is really so big, and he has never been so far from the ground, although there is a novelty, he can't help but cover up for fear, he can only rise and fall with the wind, the aura cover around him emits a white clear light, and when the aura is insufficient, he takes the spirit stone to supplement, and the sky is dark for a while, and the light is brilliant for a while. She slowly cut off her thoughts, and her mind didn't belong.
By the time Duran Zhen slowly came back to her senses, she had been lying on the ground for a long time.
She slowly straightened up, and there was a bluestone path beneath her, and she was lying on her stomach in some long alley, surrounded by people.
Why is she here? Duran came to his senses, stood up, and found himself clean, with no signs of embarrassment, no grit at all, not at all as if she had escaped from a sandstorm, but as if she had come out for an outing.
She was shocked, subconsciously pinched the talisman given by Wen Hailan in her hand, and walked slowly along the alley, passing a house, the door was wide open, and the clay pots and wooden basins in the house were neatly placed, only a basin in the courtyard was still full of water, and there were soaphorns floating on the water, and there were things like clothes in the water, which was the atmosphere of the town.
There was no one in the room except for one.
Duran really realized that it seemed to be too quiet here, there was no sound of conversation, no work, no insects, and there seemed to be no living creature in this alley except her, so quiet that people panicked.
She walked out of the house and walked past her neighbor's house, where a small spoon fell to the ground and shattered, and there was still half a bowl of corn in the broken bowl next to it.
The closer Du Lanzhen approached the alley, the more worried she became, but she still didn't hear a sound. Walking out of the alley quickly, she was silent for a while, sighed, and said "sure enough".
There is not a single person on the bustling streets.
Du Lan really wanted to take out the flying magic weapon in the storage ring, but found that he couldn't mobilize his spiritual power, but he was running pranayama as usual, she was completely helpless for a while, even if she was a calm person, she couldn't help but be a little flustered. She never thought that she would have the power to use it, and she never thought about what would happen to her one day if she turned back into a mortal. It seems that she is different from mortals, but in fact, she has lost her supernatural powers, and she still seems to be no different from mortals.
But can her mood be as calm as that of ordinary mortals? Can she live her life as peacefully as ordinary mortals?
Don't even have to think about it, Duran can really answer in the affirmative, she can't. Having seen, experienced, and enjoyed, it is impossible for her to return to the ignorant and unchanging mortal life of the past. What's more, she is not a contented person in the first place!
She had just cultivated immortals not long ago, did she want to refine her heart? Thinking too far for a while, Du Lan really smiled bitterly, quickly reined in his mind, and walked slowly along the street, contemplating his current situation.
She has been immersed in penance in the sect for many years, and the consensus among many monks is not known, but it is not that she has no knowledge, in fact, when it comes to the secret knowledge of the immortal cultivation world, she is even more than many years of scattered cultivation, and the famous family is by no means just a title.
As far as Dulan really knew, the situation she saw was either that she had strayed into a formation or a strange place, or that she was in the environment, no matter what the situation was, it was not something that she could solve by force in the seventh layer of qi refining, and only by understanding this place could she have a glimmer of life.
It can be seen that the city is very prosperous, the business is very developed, there are many kinds of goods on the shops or stalls along the way, and there are many things that Duran has never seen, she just got closer to see, and she won't even reach out to touch, I'm afraid of committing any taboos, when passing by a cart selling some gadgets, she suddenly paused, and carefully looked at a small part on the car, which was a small drum, and there was a very distinctive pattern on the side of the drum, she vaguely remembered that there was such a circle of patterns on the hem of the clay man's clothes in the hands of the stall owner who pinched the clay man in Xinyang Cityγ
Could it be ...... Did she actually enter the Ziyang Ancient City?
When Du Lanzhen walked all over the streets and alleys, she suddenly heard human voices, her first reaction was to be vigilant, followed the sound, and gradually heard it clearly, it was the sound of a woman laughing, in such a desolate place, would anyone actually laugh?
"Oh, there's a little sister. Duran's wrist sank, and a force pulled her over, she didn't have time to be shocked, she had already looked at a group of young women, and looked at each other, all of them were shocked.
"It's still a pretty little girl. The woman who pulled her laughed, "Come with me, Miss is inside." β
Du Lan really didn't have time to ask who the young lady was, why did she ask her to meet, so he dragged the woman through a few streets, bypassed two or three houses, and entered a compound at the corner of the street.
Entering the house is a wide stone road, on both sides of the bloom of some unknown flowers, seeing that Du Lan really looked at it a few times, the woman smiled and said, "The weather is dry in the desert, it took a lot of effort to make this little gadget survive, just to see a wild fun, let my sister see a smile." β
Walking through several corridors, the woman stood outside the house and said, "Miss, the guest has arrived." β
"Come in. A somewhat hoarse female voice came from the room.
"Good sister, go in. The woman smiled and pushed behind Du Lanzhen, who only felt like a piece of paper, fluttering and fluttering past the door in an instant, and was already standing in the room when he fixed his figure.
"You're here. The woman by the window turned her head, and Duran really looked over, and couldn't help but be shocked, half of her face was full of horrific scars, and the intact half of her face was only mediocre. "You seem to have something from here?"
"What?" Duran didn't believe it, she had never touched a stitch here. Before she could tell the difference, the woman stretched out her hand, Duran was really caught off guard, and before she had time to stop it, she saw the woman flick lightly on her shoulder, spread her hand, and there was a mud doll lying in her palm, which was pinched by the stall owner in Xinyang City!